Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 19: The flight operations at Srinagar Airport that were hit by poor visibility for past two days, resumed partially this afternoon after slight improvement in visibility.
A senior official told Excelsior that visibility improved slightly this afternoon at Srinagar Airport and two flights, one each of Vistara and GoAir landed and later took off. However, 15 other flights were cancelled due to poor visibility.
The official said that Indian Airlines flight also came at 2:15 p.m but was hovering over Srinagar and could not land at the airport due to poor visibility. He said that the flight went back without landing.
In the meantime, the minimum temperature across the Kashmir continued to hover below the freezing point. However, there was slight improvement in the night temperature at few places and weather at many places across Kashmir was foggy.
A Meteorological Depar-tment official said here that the minimum temperature at most places increased slightly but it remained below the freezing point.
Kargil town in Ladakh region was the coldest recorded place in the State as it registered the low of minus 8.4 degree Celsius, a degree up from the previous night’s minus 9.2 degree Celsius.
The night temperature in Leh town also increased from minus 8.4 degrees Celsius yesterday to register the low of minus 7.9 degree Celsius.
Srinagar recorded the minimum temperature of minus 2.6 degree Celsius same as that of the previous night which is four degrees below normal for this part of the season.
The minimum temperature in Qazigund was minus 1.8 degree Celsius up from minus 2.2 degree Celsius on the previous night and in Pahalgam it was recorded at minus 4.0 degree Celsius as compared to minus 4.2 degree Celsius yesterday.
Gulmarg registered the low of minus 0.6 degree Celsius against yesterday’s minus 0.4 degree Celsius. Kupwara registered the minimum of minus 2.9 degree Celsius, while Kokernag town in South registered the low of minus 0.3 degree Celsius.
However, day temperature at most of the places in Kashmir was above normal. Srinagar recorded 15.1 degree Celsius while normal day temperature for this time off the year is 15 degree Celsius, Qazigund recorded 16.5 degree Celsius, Pahalgam 14.8 degree Celsius, Kupwara 15. 4 degree Celsius, Kokernag 15.1 degree Celsius, Leh 12. 8 degree Celsius and Kargil 12.2 degree Celsius.
The MET department has forecast isolated to scattered rains for a few days beginning early next week.
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